From owner-freebsd-net Wed Mar 24 12:45:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A45B14BCF for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:45:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA197996232; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:10:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:10:32 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Petri Helenius Cc: Peter Brezny , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switch vs bridge (fwd) In-Reply-To: <36F94D41.FBEC5739@sms.fi> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Petri Helenius wrote: > > A switch replicates packets based on their Ethernet destination. > > > And how exactly would you describe a bridge then? Anything I say is going to be able to be picked apart, but a bridge replicates any data it sees for its destination network and just shoves it over. A switch makes an intelligent port-by-port decision. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message